Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On Friday 26 Dec 2014 00:44:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: On 25 December 2014 09:42:16 GMT+00:00, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 25 Dec 2014 09:20:15 Tom H wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:36 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:17:19 -0500 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried to boot my Asus MoBo A88XM-PLUS, after I disabled CMS and switched Secure Boot to other OS (as opposed to MS Windows), with sysrescuecd-4.4.1. Unfortunately I can't get a console due to this error: error: no suitable mode found. Booting in blind mode How about booting without Secure Boot? I am booting without secure boot and get the same error I'm sorry. I saw secure boot and assumed that you were trying to boot from an unsigned kernel. Your error message above looks like a grub error. Does your grub.cfg load two efi_something video modules? There is no grub on the PC, and the sysrescue LiveCD uses isolinux from what I recall. For some reason when booting in EFI mode, sysrescueCD can't find a suitable mode for my LCD monitor. I think sysrescd uses GRUB for UEFI booting. I have successfully booted and installed UEFI systems from sysrescd, but not 4.4.1. Have yotried another version? u Thanks Neil, I didn't know this. I managed to complete my installation because I had ethernet access to the box, but German (the OP) was not able to. Perhaps he should try an older version, or rebuild the sysrescuecd with the appropriate Grub options to boot in EFI with the relevant Grub video mode/drivers. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:36 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:17:19 -0500 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried to boot my Asus MoBo A88XM-PLUS, after I disabled CMS and switched Secure Boot to other OS (as opposed to MS Windows), with sysrescuecd-4.4.1. Unfortunately I can't get a console due to this error: error: no suitable mode found. Booting in blind mode How about booting without Secure Boot? I am booting without secure boot and get the same error I'm sorry. I saw secure boot and assumed that you were trying to boot from an unsigned kernel. Your error message above looks like a grub error. Does your grub.cfg load two efi_something video modules?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 1:01 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: BTW Todd, does Mint allow to boot only in console mode, i.e. without X and DE? If Mint uses Ubuntu's ubiquity installer, you can hit F6 then Esc to get to the kernel cmdline when you're at the screen where you choose to try or install.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On Thursday 25 Dec 2014 09:20:15 Tom H wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:36 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:17:19 -0500 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried to boot my Asus MoBo A88XM-PLUS, after I disabled CMS and switched Secure Boot to other OS (as opposed to MS Windows), with sysrescuecd-4.4.1. Unfortunately I can't get a console due to this error: error: no suitable mode found. Booting in blind mode How about booting without Secure Boot? I am booting without secure boot and get the same error I'm sorry. I saw secure boot and assumed that you were trying to boot from an unsigned kernel. Your error message above looks like a grub error. Does your grub.cfg load two efi_something video modules? There is no grub on the PC, and the sysrescue LiveCD uses isolinux from what I recall. For some reason when booting in EFI mode, sysrescueCD can't find a suitable mode for my LCD monitor. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 4:42 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 25 Dec 2014 09:20:15 Tom H wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:36 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:17:19 -0500 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried to boot my Asus MoBo A88XM-PLUS, after I disabled CMS and switched Secure Boot to other OS (as opposed to MS Windows), with sysrescuecd-4.4.1. Unfortunately I can't get a console due to this error: error: no suitable mode found. Booting in blind mode How about booting without Secure Boot? I am booting without secure boot and get the same error I'm sorry. I saw secure boot and assumed that you were trying to boot from an unsigned kernel. Your error message above looks like a grub error. Does your grub.cfg load two efi_something video modules? There is no grub on the PC, and the sysrescue LiveCD uses isolinux from what I recall. For some reason when booting in EFI mode, sysrescueCD can't find a suitable mode for my LCD monitor. I was answering gentger...@gmail.com and I thought that he/she was booting from an HD. I've installed Linux a dozen times on efi laptops (Gentoo once). I've used live CDs on all of these laptops and I've used grub and efibootmgr for all the installs - and gummiboot for some - and I've only hit this error once, on an install, because I was messing around with grub.cfg and didn't load efi_gop.mod and efi_uga.mod. I don't know how the other boot loaders/managers handle video but AFAIK none of them have modules so it must be built-in.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On 25 December 2014 09:42:16 GMT+00:00, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 25 Dec 2014 09:20:15 Tom H wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:36 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:17:19 -0500 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried to boot my Asus MoBo A88XM-PLUS, after I disabled CMS and switched Secure Boot to other OS (as opposed to MS Windows), with sysrescuecd-4.4.1. Unfortunately I can't get a console due to this error: error: no suitable mode found. Booting in blind mode How about booting without Secure Boot? I am booting without secure boot and get the same error I'm sorry. I saw secure boot and assumed that you were trying to boot from an unsigned kernel. Your error message above looks like a grub error. Does your grub.cfg load two efi_something video modules? There is no grub on the PC, and the sysrescue LiveCD uses isolinux from what I recall. For some reason when booting in EFI mode, sysrescueCD can't find a suitable mode for my LCD monitor. -- Regards, Mick I think sysrescd uses GRUB for UEFI booting. I have successfully booted and installed UEFI systems from sysrescd, but not 4.4.1. Have yotried another version? u -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On Saturday 20 Dec 2014 18:20:44 Mick wrote: On Saturday 20 Dec 2014 17:07:47 German wrote: Thanks Poison. SystemRescueCD is capable of booting in uefi so I can install gen too from it? I have heard good things about it Yes, this is what I am going to use to attempt to install Gentoo in UEFI. I have used it for years now to install Gentoo with a conventional BIOS. I spake too soon! :-( I just tried to boot my Asus MoBo A88XM-PLUS, after I disabled CMS and switched Secure Boot to other OS (as opposed to MS Windows), with sysrescuecd-4.4.1. Unfortunately I can't get a console due to this error: error: no suitable mode found. Booting in blind mode Any idea how to progress from here? Is it possible with sysrescuecd? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:30:49 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 20 Dec 2014 18:20:44 Mick wrote: On Saturday 20 Dec 2014 17:07:47 German wrote: Thanks Poison. SystemRescueCD is capable of booting in uefi so I can install gen too from it? I have heard good things about it Yes, this is what I am going to use to attempt to install Gentoo in UEFI. I have used it for years now to install Gentoo with a conventional BIOS. I spake too soon! :-( I just tried to boot my Asus MoBo A88XM-PLUS, after I disabled CMS and switched Secure Boot to other OS (as opposed to MS Windows), with sysrescuecd-4.4.1. Unfortunately I can't get a console due to this error: error: no suitable mode found. Booting in blind mode Any idea how to progress from here? Is it possible with sysrescuecd? Mick, you are going right after my steps ( or I go where you go ). Just tried to boot sysresc 4.4.1 with exactly the same error message. Duh. Looks like many people with the same problem. -- Regards, Mick -- German gentger...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On Sunday 21 Dec 2014 11:44:04 German wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:30:49 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I spake too soon! :-( I just tried to boot my Asus MoBo A88XM-PLUS, after I disabled CMS and switched Secure Boot to other OS (as opposed to MS Windows), with sysrescuecd-4.4.1. Unfortunately I can't get a console due to this error: error: no suitable mode found. Booting in blind mode Any idea how to progress from here? Is it possible with sysrescuecd? Mick, you are going right after my steps ( or I go where you go ). Just tried to boot sysresc 4.4.1 with exactly the same error message. Duh. Looks like many people with the same problem. OK, this is what I did to progress with the installation. 1. Things that didn't work: Editing the kernel options for nomodesetting (disable KMS option) did not work Similarly, specifying forcevesa=1024x768 did not work. 2. What worked: Typing blind after waiting for a while to make sure the CD had booted up to set up the root passwd and then to start sshd, allowed to access the PC over sshd and commence the installation. Of course, this will only work if your PC is connected to the LAN. I have no solution at the moment for air-gapped machines. On the keyboard type blind: passwd root my_secret_root_passwd my_secret_root_passwd /etc/init.d/sshd restart Then find the IP address of the new PC. In my case arping and some guessing of the next IP that the router would have issued worked, but you can use arp- scan, nmap, or some such tool, or even check your router's dhcp tables. Then ssh root@new PC's IP, enter the passwd you set up above and you're good to go with the installation, following the hand book and the wiki suggestions for UEFI. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:00:51 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 21 Dec 2014 11:44:04 German wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:30:49 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I spake too soon! :-( I just tried to boot my Asus MoBo A88XM-PLUS, after I disabled CMS and switched Secure Boot to other OS (as opposed to MS Windows), with sysrescuecd-4.4.1. Unfortunately I can't get a console due to this error: error: no suitable mode found. Booting in blind mode Any idea how to progress from here? Is it possible with sysrescuecd? Mick, you are going right after my steps ( or I go where you go ). Just tried to boot sysresc 4.4.1 with exactly the same error message. Duh. Looks like many people with the same problem. OK, this is what I did to progress with the installation. 1. Things that didn't work: Editing the kernel options for nomodesetting (disable KMS option) did not work Similarly, specifying forcevesa=1024x768 did not work. 2. What worked: Typing blind after waiting for a while to make sure the CD had booted up to set up the root passwd and then to start sshd, allowed to access the PC over sshd and commence the installation. Of course, this will only work if your PC is connected to the LAN. I have no solution at the moment for air-gapped machines. On the keyboard type blind: passwd root my_secret_root_passwd my_secret_root_passwd /etc/init.d/sshd restart Then find the IP address of the new PC. In my case arping and some guessing of the next IP that the router would have issued worked, but you can use arp- scan, nmap, or some such tool, or even check your router's dhcp tables. Then ssh root@new PC's IP, enter the passwd you set up above and you're good to go with the installation, following the hand book and the wiki suggestions for UEFI. Thanks for suggestion, Mick. Unfortunately I am not on a network and that is only PC I have at the moment. Do you know if Knoppix allows UEFI boot? HTH. -- Regards, Mick -- German gentger...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On Sunday 21 Dec 2014 12:31:11 German wrote: Thanks for suggestion, Mick. Unfortunately I am not on a network and that is only PC I have at the moment. Do you know if Knoppix allows UEFI boot? I have not used Knoppix for some years now so I don't know if it will work. Something else to try, is to type c when the sysrescuecd boot list comes up on the screen and then use the grub command line that comes up to type the appropriate grub2 commands to boot the LiveCD with. I have not looked into the GRUB2 commands appropriate for UEFI booting, but the grub documentation and Google should help on this occasion. BTW, if you are using a USB stick to boot sysrescue with, you should be able to modify it as described on the sysrescue website. You should be able to include the correct grub configuration for EFI booting in it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On 21 December 2014 12:30:49 CET, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 20 Dec 2014 18:20:44 Mick wrote: On Saturday 20 Dec 2014 17:07:47 German wrote: Thanks Poison. SystemRescueCD is capable of booting in uefi so I can install gen too from it? I have heard good things about it Yes, this is what I am going to use to attempt to install Gentoo in UEFI. I have used it for years now to install Gentoo with a conventional BIOS. I spake too soon! :-( I just tried to boot my Asus MoBo A88XM-PLUS, after I disabled CMS and switched Secure Boot to other OS (as opposed to MS Windows), with sysrescuecd-4.4.1. Unfortunately I can't get a console due to this error: error: no suitable mode found. Booting in blind mode Any idea how to progress from here? Is it possible with sysrescuecd? What is CMS? I think it's a compatibility module. Without it, only the EFI Console will work. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
* German gentger...@gmail.com [141221 07:31]: [..SNIP..] Thanks for suggestion, Mick. Unfortunately I am not on a network and that is only PC I have at the moment. Do you know if Knoppix allows UEFI boot? I've used Fedora and Linux Mint install disks for UEFI booting (I don't know about Knoppix.) Todd
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:55:06 -0500 Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * German gentger...@gmail.com [141221 07:31]: [..SNIP..] Thanks for suggestion, Mick. Unfortunately I am not on a network and that is only PC I have at the moment. Do you know if Knoppix allows UEFI boot? I've used Fedora and Linux Mint install disks for UEFI booting (I don't know about Knoppix.) Todd Good to know. Thanks -- German gentger...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried to boot my Asus MoBo A88XM-PLUS, after I disabled CMS and switched Secure Boot to other OS (as opposed to MS Windows), with sysrescuecd-4.4.1. Unfortunately I can't get a console due to this error: error: no suitable mode found. Booting in blind mode How about booting without Secure Boot?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:17:19 -0500 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried to boot my Asus MoBo A88XM-PLUS, after I disabled CMS and switched Secure Boot to other OS (as opposed to MS Windows), with sysrescuecd-4.4.1. Unfortunately I can't get a console due to this error: error: no suitable mode found. Booting in blind mode How about booting without Secure Boot? I am booting without secure boot and get the same error -- German gentger...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:55:06 -0500 Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * German gentger...@gmail.com [141221 07:31]: [..SNIP..] Thanks for suggestion, Mick. Unfortunately I am not on a network and that is only PC I have at the moment. Do you know if Knoppix allows UEFI boot? I've used Fedora and Linux Mint install disks for UEFI booting (I don't know about Knoppix.) Todd BTW Todd, does Mint allow to boot only in console mode, i.e. without X and DE? -- German gentger...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
* German gentger...@gmail.com [141221 13:01]: On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:55:06 -0500 Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * German gentger...@gmail.com [141221 07:31]: [..SNIP..] Thanks for suggestion, Mick. Unfortunately I am not on a network and that is only PC I have at the moment. Do you know if Knoppix allows UEFI boot? I've used Fedora and Linux Mint install disks for UEFI booting (I don't know about Knoppix.) Todd BTW Todd, does Mint allow to boot only in console mode, i.e. without X and DE? -- German gentger...@gmail.com I'm sure there's a way to do so but I've always just let it boot all the way up and then use a terminal. I usually use a Fedora image if I want UEFI though just out of habit. Todd
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On Saturday 20 Dec 2014 05:28:49 Tomas Mozes wrote: On 2014-12-20 00:57, German wrote: Just a follow up to my original question. I've installed grub on /dev/SDA literally following the quide. And I just realized why I made /dev/sda1 partition obviously designed for grub? Should I have been install grub into /dev/sda1? I also have uefi system and I think it matters. Thanks everyone for clarifications German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone can advice on where to dig. It seems that grub isn't installed because I can't access it pressing ESC key and I return to bios. During installation there were no errors reported, the system installed grub just fine. Also grub.cfg found all my kernels and ramdisks? Thanks for any suggestion. What would you do? If you have your /dev/sda only for Gentoo, you would install grub into /dev/sda and have /dev/sda1 for /boot, for example: /dev/sda1: /boot /dev/sda2: / The bios will load grub from mbr of /dev/sda and since you specify that grub can find it's stuff on /dev/sda1 (root), it can continue to find the kernel, etc.. Once found, it can load the kernel and mount root, because it's the kernel parameter. For example: root(hd0,0) setup (hd0) Check out http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy/grub.html#Installing-GRUB-na tively Or for grub2: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Bootloader http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start You can also have your /boot and / on the same partition. All of this is good advice, but ONLY IF the MoBo has been configured to boot in CMS/Legacy_BIOS mode. Otherwise, UEFI will bail out at boot time because it does neither read, nor use the MBR bootloader. Depending on the boot options provided by the motherboard, the hard drive can be configured to boot in legacy-BIOS using an MBR, in UEFI mode using an ESP partition, or both depending on the BIOS selection at boot time. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
That's where I think the problem lies Mick. My system is uefi. Too bad that gen too officially doesn't support it. I just wish gentoo developers take a closer look at the issue and come out with uefi capable minimal installation CD and clear uefi installation documentation Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 20 Dec 2014 05:28:49 Tomas Mozes wrote: On 2014-12-20 00:57, German wrote: Just a follow up to my original question. I've installed grub on /dev/SDA literally following the quide. And I just realized why I made /dev/sda1 partition obviously designed for grub? Should I have been install grub into /dev/sda1? I also have uefi system and I think it matters. Thanks everyone for clarifications German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone can advice on where to dig. It seems that grub isn't installed because I can't access it pressing ESC key and I return to bios. During installation there were no errors reported, the system installed grub just fine. Also grub.cfg found all my kernels and ramdisks? Thanks for any suggestion. What would you do? If you have your /dev/sda only for Gentoo, you would install grub into /dev/sda and have /dev/sda1 for /boot, for example: /dev/sda1: /boot /dev/sda2: / The bios will load grub from mbr of /dev/sda and since you specify that grub can find it's stuff on /dev/sda1 (root), it can continue to find the kernel, etc.. Once found, it can load the kernel and mount root, because it's the kernel parameter. For example: root(hd0,0) setup (hd0) Check out http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy/grub.html#Installing-GRUB-na tively Or for grub2: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Bootloader http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start You can also have your /boot and / on the same partition. All of this is good advice, but ONLY IF the MoBo has been configured to boot in CMS/Legacy_BIOS mode. Otherwise, UEFI will bail out at boot time because it does neither read, nor use the MBR bootloader. Depending on the boot options provided by the motherboard, the hard drive can be configured to boot in legacy-BIOS using an MBR, in UEFI mode using an ESP partition, or both depending on the BIOS selection at boot time. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:34 AM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: That's where I think the problem lies Mick. My system is uefi. Too bad that gen too officially doesn't support it. I just wish gentoo developers take a closer look at the issue and come out with uefi capable minimal installation CD and clear uefi installation documentation Well, while it's not covered in the official side of the install docs, this wiki page was how I handled my system when I first ended up with a UEFI laptop here (Win8 didn't even make it 12hrs for me ;) -- http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/UEFI_Gentoo_Quick_Install_Guide It only has one minor issue, and that's the lack of mentioning first and foremost that, to configure UEFI, you have to be UEFI booted already (it does get around to noting it about the halfway mark). Any UEFI compatible linux livecd/usb will work, though. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
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German wrote: That's where I think the problem lies Mick. My system is uefi. Too bad that gen too officially doesn't support it. I just wish gentoo developers take a closer look at the issue and come out with uefi capable minimal installation CD and clear uefi installation documentation Does this help: http://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?search=uefititle=Special%3ASearchgo=Go I see a couple links there about it. I'm pretty sure that the docs are moving to the wiki. Don't forget to search there for docs too. Dale :-) :-)
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On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:34 AM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: That's where I think the problem lies Mick. My system is uefi. Too bad that gen too officially doesn't support it. I just wish gentoo developers take a closer look at the issue and come out with uefi capable minimal installation CD and clear uefi installation documentation http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/UEFI_Gentoo_Quick_Install_Guide
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Thanks Poison. SystemRescueCD is capable of booting in uefi so I can install gen too from it? I have heard good things about it Poison BL. poiso...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:34 AM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: That's where I think the problem lies Mick. My system is uefi. Too bad that gen too officially doesn't support it. I just wish gentoo developers take a closer look at the issue and come out with uefi capable minimal installation CD and clear uefi installation documentation Well, while it's not covered in the official side of the install docs, this wiki page was how I handled my system when I first ended up with a UEFI laptop here (Win8 didn't even make it 12hrs for me ;) -- http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/UEFI_Gentoo_Quick_Install_Guide It only has one minor issue, and that's the lack of mentioning first and foremost that, to configure UEFI, you have to be UEFI booted already (it does get around to noting it about the halfway mark). Any UEFI compatible linux livecd/usb will work, though. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
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On Saturday 20 Dec 2014 17:07:47 German wrote: Thanks Poison. SystemRescueCD is capable of booting in uefi so I can install gen too from it? I have heard good things about it Yes, this is what I am going to use to attempt to install Gentoo in UEFI. I have used it for years now to install Gentoo with a conventional BIOS. PS. Can you please avoid top-posting in this mailing list. It breaks the logical question answer of the thread. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
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Sorry Mick. I am on android tablet and have no clue how to modify message body Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 20 Dec 2014 17:07:47 German wrote: Thanks Poison. SystemRescueCD is capable of booting in uefi so I can install gen too from it? I have heard good things about it Yes, this is what I am going to use to attempt to install Gentoo in UEFI. I have used it for years now to install Gentoo with a conventional BIOS. PS. Can you please avoid top-posting in this mailing list. It breaks the logical question answer of the thread. -- Regards, Mick
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On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 09:40:26PM +0400, German wrote: Sorry Mick. I am on android tablet and have no clue how to modify message body By using a proper e-mail client¹. *SCNR* Though I’d like to believe that even the standard Android client should be able to not break message threads. PS.: Our distro is called “Gentoo”, not “gen too”. It’s a cute kind of penguin.² ¹ K-9 comes to mind. Even though it displays the reply below when replying, it sends the mail with the reply below the quote if the relevant option is set. ² http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_penguin -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any social network. The Computer is the logical advancement of humankind: intelligence without morality. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
Just a follow up to my original question. I've installed grub on /dev/SDA literally following the quide. And I just realized why I made /dev/sda1 partition obviously designed for grub? Should I have been install grub into /dev/sda1? I also have uefi system and I think it matters. Thanks everyone for clarifications German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone can advice on where to dig. It seems that grub isn't installed because I can't access it pressing ESC key and I return to bios. During installation there were no errors reported, the system installed grub just fine. Also grub.cfg found all my kernels and ramdisks? Thanks for any suggestion. What would you do?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
Am Samstag, 20.12.2014 um 03:57 schrieb German gentger...@gmail.com: Just a follow up to my original question. I've installed grub on /dev/SDA literally following the quide. And I just realized why I I think the MBR of your first drive (/dev/sda) is usually the right place for grub if you only have one OS (gentoo) installed. made /dev/sda1 partition obviously designed for grub? Should I have been install grub into /dev/sda1? I also have uefi system and I think it matters. Thanks everyone for clarifications You really should share more information. What version of grub do you have installed? How do you have it installed (commands and parameters). And of course you should post the config file. How many drives do you have you attached to your computer? Sometimes a connected USB-Stick or eSATA drive confuses the drive order so that grub can't boot or even has been installed at another place than you intended. I don't have a clue about UEFI and I never used grub2. But I think someone else could help you in that case, if you give enough infos. Regards wabe German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone can advice on where to dig. It seems that grub isn't installed because I can't access it pressing ESC key and I return to bios. During installation there were no errors reported, the system installed grub just fine. Also grub.cfg found all my kernels and ramdisks? Thanks for any suggestion. What would you do?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful
On 2014-12-20 00:57, German wrote: Just a follow up to my original question. I've installed grub on /dev/SDA literally following the quide. And I just realized why I made /dev/sda1 partition obviously designed for grub? Should I have been install grub into /dev/sda1? I also have uefi system and I think it matters. Thanks everyone for clarifications German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone can advice on where to dig. It seems that grub isn't installed because I can't access it pressing ESC key and I return to bios. During installation there were no errors reported, the system installed grub just fine. Also grub.cfg found all my kernels and ramdisks? Thanks for any suggestion. What would you do? If you have your /dev/sda only for Gentoo, you would install grub into /dev/sda and have /dev/sda1 for /boot, for example: /dev/sda1: /boot /dev/sda2: / The bios will load grub from mbr of /dev/sda and since you specify that grub can find it's stuff on /dev/sda1 (root), it can continue to find the kernel, etc.. Once found, it can load the kernel and mount root, because it's the kernel parameter. For example: root(hd0,0) setup (hd0) Check out http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy/grub.html#Installing-GRUB-natively Or for grub2: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Bootloader http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start You can also have your /boot and / on the same partition.
